Most dangerous Linux user...

[ASCI Blue]

The newbie with a distro of 'drake 7.2. Now for some fun stuff, where can I get transparent themes for KDE? Should I even run KDE? What should I be wary of while I try to get my rig onto the network? And what's are good AIM/ICQ/IRC programs?

[bdg1983]

kde.themes.org ?

You will need to setup a firewall for your system. Do a search here or in Networking or Web Serving/Security.

Freshmeat.net is a good place to search for ICQ etc. Never use them myself.

[bugfix]

I think the most dangerous Linux user is the one at a Microsoft convention with an axe.

[always_today]

the 7.2 Mandrake distro comes with quite a few bells and whistles. do you mean transparent themes for the ETERM? do you use an ETERM? if you have the power (i run on a weee 486) you should look into your CDs for an rpm called ETERM, it is very cool and although the command line is therapy in itself, the options with ETERM make typing code, vi, whaterever, pure joy! :cool:

[ASCI Blue]

I'm poor and couldn't afford a CD, I downloaded mine. Why do I need a firewall? Won't the server of the LAN take care of that since it has a firewall? Will KDE 1.x themes work with 2.x?

[ 24 February 2001: Message edited by: ASCI Blue ]

[mrBen]

Licq is supposed to be pretty good. For IRC *****X is good from the command line, and there are a ton of ones for X too. Given that IRC is text based, I gather that *****X is very popular because it runs fast.

As far as I understand it, you shouldn't really need a firewall, as standard ISPs will have one. AFAIK the only real need is if you have a permanent net connection - ie you are connected 24/7 with cable/ADSL/ISDN. However, it's probably not a good idea to log on using root (which you shouldn't do anyway) just in case someone tries to hack you.

HTH

[Bills_a_bub]

The question is whether or not you trust the ISP to have set up the firewall correctly.

My ISP claims to have one installed, but when I'm surfing via Windows, my ZoneAlarm firewall goes off every couple of hours while someone from (insert country name here) scans the ports on my system.

You can get a software firewall for free at pretty much any of the sites that you can download any other package or source code from (PMfirewall). Or, like I did, you can get it off of one of the CDs that come with the monthly computer mags.

HTH.

[tallulah]

Originally posted by ASCI Blue:
Why do I need a firewall? Won't the server of the LAN take care of that since it has a firewall? Will KDE 1.x themes work with 2.x?

If you are on a LAN, there most likely IS a firewall in place. You could go to grc.com (http://www.grc.com) to find out how secure your connection is.

As far as KDE is concerned, I would avoid it and try a trimmer window manager such as BlackBox (http://blackbox.alug.org/)!

:)

[bdg1983]

your isp's firewalls generaly wont do **** for you because if they have one, it will basically allow anything through. It doesnt make a lot of sense to make an isp and then decide what traffic you will allow through to your customers. The only thing i know my isp blocks is connection attempts to ports 137-139. But only an idiot would try and run smb over the internet anyways.

So the moral to the story...yes you need a firewall, but its not such a big deal if your on dynamic dialup.

[Derango]

Originally posted by SlCKB0Y:
your isp's firewalls generaly wont do **** for you because if they have one, it will basically allow anything through. It doesnt make a lot of sense to make an isp and then decide what traffic you will allow through to your customers. The only thing i know my isp blocks is connection attempts to ports 137-139. But only an idiot would try and run smb over the internet anyways.

So the moral to the story...yes you need a firewall, but its not such a big deal if your on dynamic dialup.

I don't think he was talking about an ISP server firewall when he said "Won't the server of the LAN..." It seems like there is a local firewall on his network.

[ASCI Blue]

Derango, you're absoultly correct. I am on a small home LAN, 4 computers. Server is using NT 4. I personally configured it's firewall.

[Strike]

Originally posted by ASCI Blue:
Derango, you're absoultly correct. I am on a small home LAN, 4 computers. Server is using :eek: NT 4 :eek: . I personally configured it's firewall.
Then maybe you do want a personal firewall on the Linux box :D